“…to speak last, after others were tired…”

He mastered early a trick of the successful lawyer: to speak last, after others were tired, and to sum
up their arguments while tilting the presentation in his own direction.
– “The Fifties”, David Halberstam.  Describing John Foster Dulles.

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